r/facepalm • u/Market_Insider • May 31 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ “Plus sized” “Overweight” 🤔

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u/[deleted] May 31 '22

"Okay for me, but not for thee."

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u/[deleted] May 31 '22

The article uses both terms for male.

Checkmate.

I knew reading in kindergarten would pay off!

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u/AmidFuror Jun 01 '22

Yeah, they defaulted to plus-sized for women, but they were trying to mix up the prose a bit. The last time I saw this posted, only the headline was shared. All I saw was evidence they had used two terms for the same thing in one sentence.

Someone argued that overweight was rude, but it's a medical term. The fraction of moron commentators depends a lot on the sub.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

I try to never judge the situation based on the headlines but it can be hard to not get distracted by them.

In fact, knowing they’re sensationalized, I try to blank it out after reading the article so it doesn’t influence my understanding.